Zombie Journalism » Social Media

I’m more than a Twitter Monkey

Mandy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:59:08 +0000

I'm relieved to be out of my social media editor roles because I've been worrying about my future and the future of the social media role at news organizations, for lots of reasons. [...]

Moving into the terrifying new something

Mandy — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:34:08 +0000

I'm leaving the Huffington Post to take on a challenge that's so different from anything I've ever done, I want to start breathing into a paper bag just thinking about it. I need to get back to learning and challenging myself - and I think this next step is just what I need to grow as a journalist. [...]

Holy engagement, Batman! How HuffPost blew up the State of the Union on Facebook

Mandy — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:53:09 +0000

How did The Huffington Post get 32,694 Likes, 2,525 comments and 4,268 shares on Facebook for Obama's State of the Union address? How about a sort of Facebook take on live-tweeting? It was an experiment, to be sure, but it seemed to work out well. [...]

How to Maintain a Safe, Positive and Public Facebook Life

Mandy — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:48:31 +0000

Tips for maintaining a safe, positive and public Facebook life. [...]

How To Set Up Facebook Subscribe For Journalists

Mandy — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:49:14 +0000

Facebook Subscribe allows Facebook users to share their public updates with other users, even if they are not friends. I've created this step-by-step guide for users who want to take advantage of this feature without putting their own privacy at risk. [...]

B.S. Detection for Journalists

Mandy — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:20:07 +0000

Eds Note 10/5: It was brought to my attention that the links in this slideshow are not clickable in the embed here. I included them all below this post.

Ever see a tip that’s too good to be true (it probably is) or a photo so amazing you just can’t believe it (don’t)? Sometimes you can’t just [...]

What if we’d had today’s social media on 9/11?

Mandy — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:16:53 +0000

If today's social media had been around, those who perished on September 11, 2001 could have been the storytellers of their own history. [...]

WaPo arrives late to NATO story on social media

Mandy — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:07:25 +0000

On August 6 around 2 a.m. local time, a NATO helicopter carrying U.S. Special Forces troops crashed in eastern Afghanistan.

The Washington Post had a reporter in person and on the story – but it took a long time for anyone to notice on its social media channels.

A student from my summer social media class at Georgetown [...]

Facebook comments can’t guarantee a lack of anonymity

Mandy — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:52:30 +0000

There’s a conventional wisdom out there in the online journalism world that: 1.) News site comments will automatically be better if people have to use real names, and 2.) Using Facebook for your comments will accomplish this.

I’ve said many times before that I don’t think anonymity is the problem. My campaign on that seems to be [...]

The Bin Laden story and real-time engagement

Mandy — Mon, 02 May 2011 21:13:51 +0000

Please allow me to think aloud on the past 15 hours.

We all acknowledge that the news of Osama bin Laden’s death broke on social media. We’ve all got stories about Twitter’s impact, roundups of Twitter reactions, tweet timelines and Storification galore – but did anyone in the heat of the developing news last night start engaging readers on [...]